S08E19 - The Skywalker Incursion

No: 178  |  Season: 8   Episode: 19  |  Air Date: 2015-04-02  |  Runtime: mins

Sheldon: There it is. It's just a gate. On a road. Leonard: Wasn't even that hard to find.

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Summary

When Leonard and Sheldon are invited to speak at UC Berkeley, they take a detour to try and meet one of their idols. Meanwhile, while cleaning out Mrs. Wolowitz's house, a ping pong battle ensues when Howard and Bernadette argue over the fate of his TARDIS.

Director and Writers

Director: Mark Cendrowski
Writers: Story by: Jim Reynolds & Tara Hernandez & Jeremy Howe / Teleplay by: Steven Molaro & Steve Holland & Maria Ferrari

Script

Script: S08E19 - The Skywalker Incursion

Quotes

Amy: Can I be in charge of pricing? I've been going to garage sales my whole life. Can you believe I got these pantyhose for a nickel?
Howard: All right, Amy's in charge of pricing and being seventy-five.

Sheldon: (Opening lines) Leonard, I've been working on an opening joke for our lecture at Berkeley.
Leonard: I like to laugh, but say it anyway.
Sheldon: Okay. What do you say to a graduate of the UC Berkeley Physics Department? I'll have fries with that. Because his education hasn't prepared him for a career in the sciences.
Penny: You know, when they chase you out of there, you only have to run faster than Sheldon.

Sheldon: I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it!
Leonard: I'm about to lose control, and I think I like it!
Sheldon: What are you talking about?

Howard: Come on, Raj! You are the King Kong of ping pong! You are the menace of table tennis! Put her away, because I don't have a third one!

Bernadette: All right, if you can switch champions, so can I. Raj, you're up!
Penny: No fair! I thought I was your champion!
Bernadette: Oh, you don't even care!
Penny: Hey, I care... Wait, no I don't. Good luck, Raj.

Amy: Ooh, you just chose champions. It's like we're re-enacting the ancient German practice of trial by combat.
Penny: It's also like when the Mountain fought the Red Viper in Game of Thrones.
Bernadette: Leonard makes you watch that, too?
Penny: No, I like that show. It's got dragons and people doing it.

Howard: Excuse me. Why is there a sticker on this? It's my TARDIS, from Doctor Who. I was planning on moving it in the house.
Bernadette: I think you just answered your own question.
Howard: Come on, one day this may double in value. It'd be worth half what I paid for it!

Sheldon: So, what are you in for?
Mitchell: Honestly, I just wanted to meet Mr. Lucas and say thank you. You know, growing up the movies made a huge impact on my life. I never really fit in anywhere, until I discovered the worlds he had created, and I finally found a place where I belong.
Sheldon: But, why are you here?
Mitchell: Oh, I hopped a fence and they caught me in the sculpture gallery making out with the Chewbacca statue.
Sheldon: Excuse me.
(Gets up and sits next to Leonard)
Sheldon: Leonard... they have a sculpture gallery!

Leonard: I don't think George Lucas built his headquarters in the middle of nowhere because he wanted people dropping in.
Sheldon: Yoda's swamp was in the middle of nowhere. Tatooine was in the middle of nowhere. Hoth was in the middle of nowhere. That's code, Leonard. He wants us to drop in.

Bernadette: You know, Amy, I was wondering how Sheldon would react if you had a TARDIS in your place.
Howard: Don't listen to her, just hit the ball!
Amy: Keep talking.
(Cut to Amy's apartment, where the TARDIS is installed in her bedroom door)
Bernadette: If this doesn't get him into your bedroom, nothing will!

Sheldon: I can see the ranch, Leonard! Oh, it's rustic, it's lovely! I'd take a picture, but people are chasing me! I'm gonna make it! I'm gonna make it! They have tasers, but they wouldn't dare use... AAAAH!

Bernadette: No fair. You've had that table your whole life.
Howard: Not really. I mostly used it as a battlefield where the Transformers and the Thundercats fought an ongoing war over control of a bra I found in the woods.

Leonard: (they've just found the gate to Skywalker Ranch) You want to get a picture?
Sheldon: I want more than a picture. I want to go in.
Leonard: So do I, but they'll never let us.
Sheldon: Is that the attitude that helped you get Penny?
Leonard: No, but I don't have three years to make that gate feel sorry for me.

Sheldon: Play that funky music, white boy!
Leonard: I'm surprised you know that reference.
Sheldon: What reference?

Penny: Bernadette, for every episode of Doctor Who Leonard had made me sit through, I will play on your behalf and send that TARDIS back to Galliffrey, where I hate that I know it belongs.

Notes and Trivia

In the end scene, Sheldon is wearing a long colorful scarf and jumps through the door of the TARDIS. This long scarf is similar to the one worn by the 4th Doctor from Doctor Who (1963), played by Tom Baker.

On the drive Sheldon expresses concern about a possible hotel detective and Leonard mocks that with a 1930s style comment about hitting the bricks. From the late 1800s to about the 1950s, most large hotels employed house detectives who wandered around looking for thieves, prostitutes, and unmarried couples trying to rent a room together.

Penny is an excellent ping-pong player, as Kaley Cuoco was a nationally ranked child tennis player. The entire cast often plays ping-pong during breaks in rehearsals.

When Sheldon runs away from the guard shack the guard announces a code "AA-23". Princess Leia was held in detention block AA-23 of the Death Star.

Goofs

None

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